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Due March 15: Fair Work Legal Center hiring staff attorney

Application Deadline: Close of business, Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Fair Work Center empowers workers to achieve fair employment. We are a hub for workers to understand and exercise their legal rights, improve working conditions and connect with community resources. We envision a society in which workers are treated with dignity and respect, regardless of class, gender, or race. We will work to ensure that workers are informed of their rights under the law and that employers are held accountable to labor standards.

The Fair Work Center Legal Clinic, operated in partnership with Seattle University and the University of Washington schools of law advises and represents workers in accessing their rights under Seattle’s labor ordinances as well as under state and federal law. The Clinic meets community members where they are, with representation taking place in the community rather than waiting for workers to come to us.

Columbia Legal Services, through its leaders, has always been guided by a common vision: that everyone belongs within what Professor John A. Powell calls “The Circle of Human Concern”, and that the law must affirmatively promote equity and justice for communities that are marginalized, oppressed, differentially treated or delegitimized. CLS, its predecessors and strategic partners, have repeatedly morphed and restructured, shedding organizational identities whenever necessary to protect this vision and strengthen our ability to promote the interests of people and communities who are most vulnerable to exploitation, denial of individual and collective rights and differential treatment in our state through our capacity to provide full-range, multiforum advocacy. Never in the organization’s 50-year history has this equity and justice capacity been more important.

Due March 27: National Employment Law Project hiring staff attorney

Application Deadline: Monday, March 27, 2017

The National Employment Law Project (NELP), one of the nation’s leading workers’ rights organizations, is seeking a staff attorney to support campaigns at the federal, state and local levels to expand job opportunities for people with arrest and conviction records. The position is based in NELP’s Berkeley office.

Due March 31: Yale Law School seeks applications for a Ludwig Clinical Fellow

Application Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2017

The Fellowship is designed for a lawyer with a minimum of four years of relevant practice experience who is interested in preparing for a career in law school clinical teaching. The Fellow will work with the Ludwig Community and Economic Development Clinic (CED).

Due March 31: Summer internship with the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury

Application Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2017

The Office of Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) Enforcement & Compliance (E&C), Bank Activities and Structure (BAS) and Community and Consumer Law (CCL) Divisions in Washington, DC are soliciting applications for law clerks for Summer 2017.

E&C is responsible for handling enforcement actions against national banks, federal savings associations, and bank officers and employees, including large civil money penalties, suspensions and removals, temporary cease and desist orders, and other administrative enforcement actions. The Division also works closely with the Department of Justice and the other bank regulatory agencies on coordination of law enforcement efforts involving insured financial institutions. Typically E&C law clerks, working under the close supervision of attorneys, formulate and present enforcement recommendations, conduct legal research, draft memos, notices of charges and settlement documents.

Due March 31: New York Legal Assistance Group summer internship positions

Application Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2017

The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers. NYLAG clients include immigrants, seniors, the homebound, families facing foreclosure, renters facing eviction, low-income consumers, those in need of government assistance, children in need of special education, domestic violence survivors, persons with disabilities, patients with chronic illness or disease, low-wage workers, low-income members of the LGBT community, Holocaust survivors, and others in need.

To enhance the level of services available in New York, and to help train the next generation of public interest lawyers, NYLAG is recruiting a class of law student summer interns for the positions listed below. Each position requires a full-time commitment of 10 weeks (generally, May 30th to August 4th) and is unpaid. In addition to handling substantive work at NYLAG, interns will have the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive training service that covers the breadth of civil legal services practice in New York City, as well as a series of brown bag lunches on fellowships, clerkships and other topics of interest, and social events in and around NYLAG’s office in lower Manhattan.

The Air Force Judge Advocate General‘s Corps is seeking applications for our PAID 2017 summer internship program. As an intern, you will gain hands-on experience in diverse areas of legal practice while learning more about the Air Force JAG Corps. Positions are available for full-time work for 8-10 weeks during the summer of 2017.

Learn more and apply here.

Rolling Deadline: ACLU of WA hiring staff attorney

Application Deadline: Open until filled

The ACLU of Washington is a leader among state affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union, the country’s premier guardian of liberty. We work in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect and extend American rights to freedom, fairness and equality. The ACLU is both nonprofit and nonpartisan.

The staff attorney will be responsible for investigating, filing, and litigating civil liberties and civil rights cases in both federal and state courts. This includes legal research, investigative work, identifying and signing up named plaintiffs, complaint drafting, discovery and motion practice, and handling trials and appeals.

The attorney will spend a significant amount of time educating individuals with disabilities about legal rights and self-advocacy strategies. The attorney will respond to calls and letters from individuals seeking assistance from DRW and will travel to facilities serving these individuals to provide in-person services. The attorney will provide services that empower people with disabilities to advocate for themselves through concise interviews, focused research, provision of information, referrals and advocacy tips, and development of informational publications. The attorney also will monitor, investigate and advocate for individuals and groups who are abused, neglected, or have had their civil rights violated. This position requires frequent travel throughout Washington State to monitor facilities and provide in-person technical assistance services. This position will not have a primary focus on litigation, but the attorney will from time to time work on systemic litigation brought by DRW.

March 1: Federal Defender Services of Idaho internship

Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Federal Defender Services of Idaho is accepting applications from first- and second-year law students for a summer legal clerkship position with the Capital Habeas Unit for Summer 2017. The Capital Habeas Unit, located in Boise, Idaho, represents individuals under a state sentence of death in Idaho, California and Nevada.

The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is the premier global legal organization dedicated to advancing women’s reproductive health, self-determination, and dignity. Its mission is straightforward and ambitious: to advance reproductive health and rights as fundamental human rights that all governments around the world are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill. Headquartered in New York City, the Center has regional offices in Bogota, Geneva, Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Washington, DC and a staff of more than 130 diverse professionals. Its annual operating budget is approximately $23 million, the result of an extraordinary growth trajectory; the Center is now poised for a new phase of significant expansion through its next Strategic Plan.

Rolling Deadline: ACLU of WA Legal Intake internship

Application Deadline: Open until filled

The ACLU of Washington is seeking engaged, committed volunteers to help serve as the “face of the ACLU” in assisting our legal department in working with the thousands of Washingtonians who contact us each year seeking information and assistance. The ACLU of Washington is a dynamic non-profit, public interest organization devoted to protecting civil liberties and civil rights. Its staff of 30+ employees and numerous volunteers work in a fast paced, friendly and professional office.

Legal Intake interns work within the ACLU of Washington’s Legal Department to assist with the organization, response, and analysis of intake complaints from around Washington State on a wide range of civil liberties and other issues such as free speech, student discipline, police practices, criminal law, and jail and prison conditions.

The Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) is an inter-disciplinary initiative of YLS, Yale Medical School, and the Yale School of Public Health, launched in 2016. CRIT staff work in collaboration with the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at YLS to promote public health by ensuring open access to scientific data as well to improve the integrity of biomedical and clinical research.

Rolling Deadline: Criminal Defense Investigator with the Federal Public Defender

Application Deadline: Open until filled

Investigators are part of the FPD team representing indigent defendants charged with federal crimes ranging from trespass to murder to complex fraud. The work includes locating and interviewing witnesses, reviewing evidence, assessing legal claims (including habeas corpus claims), organizing documents in databases, and developing sentencing mitigation. Some travel is required within the district, including occasional overnight or longer trips, as well as less frequent travel outside of the district.

Rolling Deadline: Summer Law Clerk for Immigration and Employment Law with Legal Aid Nonprofit in San Francisco

Application Deadline: Open until filled

Bayview/Hunters Point Community Legal in San Francisco, CA, is working to prove that the law can work for everyone by creating the country’s first system of universal access to civil representation. We serve community members in the highest-need neighborhoods of San Francisco located in District 10: Bayview, Hunters Point, Potrero, Sunnydale, Visitation Valley. Eventually, we hope to expand, serve more neighborhoods, and create a model for national replication.

We are seeking a summer law clerk to help us handle immigration and employment cases. Fluent or highly proficient Spanish is required.You will work under the supervision and mentorship of our Senior Staff Attorney. Day-to-day work includes negotiating with adverse counsel, meeting clients, drafting demand letters and pleadings, and researching relevant law. We are fast-paced, high-volume office. We guarantee that you will not ever be bored. We value students who are passionate about access to civil justice, self-motivated, and have strong client service and time management skills. We believe we offer extremely challenging and rewarding positions for students who want to learn how they can be a part of universal access.